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Fire in Aveyron: a warehouse catches fire and burns more than 900 tonnes of lithium batteries
A storage warehouse has been on fire since the evening of Saturday February 17 and saw 900 tonnes of lithium batteries burn in Viviez (Aveyron). The first analyzes carried out rule out any chemical pollution. – (franceinfo)
A storage warehouse has been on fire since the evening of Saturday February 17 and saw 900 tonnes of lithium batteries burn in Viviez (Aveyron). The first analyzes carried out rule out any chemical pollution.
A massive fire broke out on Saturday February 17 in a 3,000 square meter storage warehouse located in Viviez, Aveyron. It was still burning on Sunday morning, as 900 tonnes of lithium batteries burned inside. From the first hours, a perimeter of 500 meters was established around the fire. The population remained confined until Saturday evening.
The risk of chemical air pollution ruled out?
“It was a real fireworks display, I’ve never seen that. It exploded in all directions, I find it scandalous“, testifies a man. 70 firefighters remained mobilized all night on the site, facing a fire that was under control but particularly difficult to extinguish. Colonel Mickaël Lecoq, SDIS director of Aveyron, spoke of “a mass fire, metal fires which require very large quantities of water“. The task is also made difficult by the presence of lithium batteries. The first analyzes carried out in the air seem to rule out the risk of chemical pollution.
